A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Each new technology — new environment — is a reprogramming of sensory life. … The new one is always unperceived. We see the Emperor’s old clothes. Only children and artists are antisocial enough to see the new ones.
Counterblast (1969), p 33
Year: 1969
Compiled by William Kuhns
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